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Meta continues to shovel money into the growing VR gaming segment
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 11 October, 2022 - 22:05 · 1 minute
Meta's Connect keynote presentation Tuesday afternoon spent a lot of time talking about how virtual reality—and the coming high-end Quest Pro headset —would help revolutionize the future of work and socializing. But the company also spent a lot of time talking up the gaming sector that has so far been the primary use case driving the relative market success of the Quest 2 headset .
To reinforce that success, the company formally announced its recent acquisition of three more major VR gaming studios today:
- Twisted Pixel , the studio behind the creepy Wilson's Heart (which Meta actually stealthily bought last November ).
- Camouflaj , one of the developers behind 2020's PSVR exclusive Iron Man VR (which will now be coming to Quest 2 on November 3).
- Armature Studios , the developers behind the popular Resident Evil 4 VR port for Quest 2.
Those recent purchases add to a recent Meta game studio acquisition spending spree that already included Beat Games ( Beat Saber ), Ready at Dawn ( Lone Echo ), Sanzaru Games ( Asgard's Wrath ), Downpour Interactive ( Onward ), and BigBox VR ( Population One ). In July, the Federal Trade Commission filed an antitrust lawsuit to try to stop Meta's purchase of Within, makers of the popular VR fitness app Supernatural .